


CSE must take the following steps to protect the privacy of Canadians: (1) Metadata that is known to be associated with Canadians anywhere or any person in Canada, and that is incidentally obtained as a result of the acquisition of metadata, must, when such metadata is reported in CSE reports, be altered in such a way as to render impossible the identification of the persons to whom the metadata r. This method involves the acquisition of metadata, the identification of the determination of the the determination of th c) "Contact Chaining" means the method developed to enable the analysis, from information derived from metadata, of communications activities or patterns to build a profile of communications contacts of various foreign entities of interest in relation to the foreign intelligence.
